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Edited By Keith Allan and Kasia M. Jaszczolt

This book "fills the unquestionable need for a comprehensive and up-to-date handbook on the fast-developing field of pragmatics" and "includes contributions from many of the principal figures in a wide variety of fields of pragmatic research as well as some up-and-coming pragmatists."

The study examines the linguistic devices used in English texts toconstitute an imagined space before the reader's “inner eye.” For this, ithas recourse to text types such as travel guides or factual geographicaltexts which describe visually perceptible scenarios. The focus is on thesequence in which the elements of the space are introduced, and from this aclassification is derived of different ways in which the reader’s eye isled. On this basis, the relevant effects and functions are analysed ofdifferent strategies for constituting space.